Register Log In Wordsmith Talk Forums General Topics Miscellany Favorite Stephen Leacock? Search Advanced Forum Search Forums Calendar Active Threads

Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Favorite Stephen Leacock? #27917 05/01/2001 10:25 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 68 jimthedogII journeyman jimthedogII journeyman Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 68 The Marine excursion of the knights of Pythias is my favorite Stephen Leacock story. I was wondering if anyone else reads Leacock stories and which is your favorite? -Scott Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Favorite Stephen Leacock? #27918 05/01/2001 12:57 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia paulb addict paulb addict Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Two of my favourite Leacock stories are "My financial career" and "The awful fate of Melpomenus Jones". Both of them were made into animated films by the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Favorite Stephen Leacock? #27919 05/01/2001 2:04 PM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 4 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Torchy stranger Torchy stranger Joined: May 2001 Posts: 4 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada My favorite line from the Marine Excursion goes something like this: "... and the bank teller with a face like a horse, and his friend with a face like another horse..." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Favorite Stephen Leacock? #27920 05/01/2001 7:24 PM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 387 Hartsville, New York. jimthedog enthusiast jimthedog enthusiast Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 387 Hartsville, New York. Wasn't it his brother? I liked all of the Sunshine sketches. jimthedog Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Favorite Stephen Leacock? #27921 05/01/2001 7:32 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Glad to see Stephen Leacock is still being read if this is the same Canadian humorist I remember reading so many years ago. He wrote an essay telling about he and his room-mate with their heads still under the covers because it was very cold, commiserating with each other because "they had not slept a wink all night!" Only to discover when they threw off the covers that the ceiling had fallen during the night, and neither had known it. A couple weeks later, I woke up feeling the same way, and found that there had been a fire in the room below me, the firemen had chopped down doors and smashed windows, with sirens screaming, all without my knowing it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Favorite Stephen Leacock? #27922 05/01/2001 10:48 PM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 4 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Torchy stranger Torchy stranger Joined: May 2001 Posts: 4 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada I looked it up... "The two tellers of the Exchange Bank are both there standing side by side. But one of them -- the one with a cameo pin and the long face like a horse -- is going, and the other -- with the other cameo pin and a face like another horse -- is not. In the same way, Hussell of the Newspacket is going, but his brother, beside him, isn't. Lillian Drone is going, but her sister can't; and so on all through the crowd." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

Default Style BlackNTan Drab eBay GooG v2 infopop new dark new light original dark original stock rounded corners Slate snow sunny dropshadow theblues Touch Of Grey UBB.threads UBB.threads - Dark UBB.threads - Light UBBCentral UBBCentral - Crimson UBBCentral - Lime UBBCentral - Marshmallow UBBCentral - Mocha UBBCentral - Zen UBBT77 UBBT77 - Dark ubbthreads ubbthreads-dark Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith Talk